Treaty of San Francisco

The Treaty of San Francisco was signed on 8 September 1951 in San Francisco, California, USA, formally bringing an end to the war between Japan and the Allied Powers of World War II. Under the treaty, Japan accepted the judgments of the Allied War Crimes Courts imposed on Japan both within and outside Japan, and Japan ended its position as an imperial power, paid reparations to Allied civilians and former prisoners of war who had suffered Japanese war crimes, and the Allied occupation of Japan was brought to an end, coming into force on 28 April 1952.